Dr.
Adrian
Jäggi
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jaeggi*aim.uzh.ch
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Research Interests
I am interested in primate cognition, social behavior and the evolution of human behavior and psychology. For my diploma thesis I studied social learning in wild orangutans to gain insights into the evolution of traditions and culture. During my PhD I was interested in cooperation, studying the reciprocal exchange of food and other currencies among chimpanzees and bonobos and also did extensive literature reviews and comparative analyses on this subject. Both of these projects were supervised by Carel van Schaik and the latter also included an interdisciplinary collaboration with the University’s Research Priority Program in Ethics (www.ethik.uzh.ch/ufsp.html). During my first post doc I will further pursue these topics with research on human forager societies, working with Michael Gurven at the University of California in Santa Barbara.
Current position
Post doctoral researcher with Michael Gurven at the Human Behavioral Ecology Lab, Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara (www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/hbe/)
Grants
Swiss National Science Foundation PBZHP3-133443
Cogito Foundation S-106/06
A. H. Schultz Foundation
Editorial services
Reviewer for American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Animal Cognition, Behavioral Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Biology Letters, Folia Primatologica
Scientific Awards
A. H. Schultz Price for the advancement of young scientists
Best oral presentation at the 10th conference of the Gesellschaft für Primatologie
Price for scientific excellence awarded by the science faculty of the University of Zurich for diploma thesis.